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Thank you. :)
Posted by janinekspendlove in News and Updates on July 3rd, 2011
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has read my book & taken the time to let me know what they think, whether it be through a comment here, on facebook, or via email.
Your support and excitement over the War of the Seasons series is infectious & definitely keeps me writing!
Just as a heads up, I wanted to let you know some tentative publishing dates for further installments of the War of the Seasons series.
I’ve written a couple short stories that explore the back story of a few of the side characters – namely, Almera, Eánna, Milton, and Eilath. The first short story will come out in October 2011, and the second one in April 2012. These will be digital releases only, available for .99 cents.
The Hunter, book two in the War of the Seasons series, should be ready for release, both digitally and physically in June of 2012.
One quick favor to ask of you all – if you liked The Human, please spread the word to your friends via email, twitter, text, facebook, or just old fashioned talking. 
Also, please consider leaving a review for it on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and/or goodreads.com. As this book is self-published, whether it “makes it” will be entirely due to you, and the awesome power of social media. For those of you already doing this, thank you so much! 
That said, guess I’d better get back to writing The Hunter!
Back & ready to roll
Posted by janinekspendlove in News and Updates on March 6th, 2011
Ok, vacation over. It was wonderful & much needed, but now I’ve got to get back to War of the Seasons.
I received my first truly negative criticism of my first book, The Human – a friend really didn’t like it.
I have to say it was a bit shocking, and it hurt my feelings at first, because honestly, who likes to hear that someone didn’t like something they created. Then, to make matters worse, many of the things the person didn’t like about my book weren’t necessarily things that could be fixed. It was completely based on their personal tastes, and they simply didn’t like my book.
After some time mulling over their comments, I realized something. That’s ok! Not everyone is going to like what I write, and it’s best that I learn that now, early on, from a friend, instead of after War of the Seasons gets published. I mean, isn’t that the reason there are different genres? I don’t like mystery or true crime like my husband does, but I love sci-fi/fantasy & romance. It’s great when we find a book or author that we can both agree on, but generally our “to read” stacks next to our bed (or as is becoming more the case lately, our Nook wishlists) are very different.
So, that said, I’ve come out of this experience of “negative” feedback positively. I need to always strive to better my writing, but I can’t write to please people – because I’m never going to please everyone. So I just need to tell the story I want tell the best way I know how.
